diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
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@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+django-helpdesk was originally written by Ross Poulton. Since publishing the
+code a number of people have made some fantastic improvements and provided
+bug fixes and updates as the Django codebase has moved on and caused small
+portions of this application to break.
+
+To these people, and any more, my sincere thanks:
+
+Andreas Kotowicz
+Chris Etcp
+David Clymer
+Loe Spee
+Maxim Litnitskiy
+Nikolay Panov
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@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ contributors reaching far beyond Jutda.
 5. Initial Configuration
 6. Spam filtering
 7. API Usage
-8. Thank You
+8. Custom fields
 
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 1. Licensing
@@ -234,16 +234,17 @@ For usage instructions and command syntax, see the file
 templates/helpdesk/api_help.html, or visit http://helpdesk/api/help/.
 
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-8. Thank You
+8. Custom fields
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-While this started as a project to suit my own needs, since publishing the
-code a number of people have made some fantastic improvements and provided
-bug fixes and updates as the Django codebase has moved on and caused small
-portions of this application to break.
+As of February 2011, django-helpdesk supports custom fields on the Ticket 
+model. These fields are created by using the Django administration tool, and
+are shown on both the public and staff submission forms. 
 
-To these people, my sincere thanks:
+You can use most Django field types including text, integer, boolean, and list.
 
-David Clymer <http://djangopeople.net/vezult/>
-Chris Etcp
-Nikolay Panov
+The demo at http://demo.jutdahelpdesk.com contains an example of each type of 
+custom field, including a mix of mandatory and optional fields.
+
+Note that this feature is still in beta - it needs quite a bit of testing and 
+no doubt has bugs!